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They rubbered me the right way!

June 14, 2019 L.T. Hanlon6 Comments
Photo of a Smith-Corona Silent-Super portable typewriter. It is painted in what the manufacturercalled desert sand and on the left front bears a decal indicating that at some point in its life the typewriter was sold or serviced by Windward Office Machines, a company on the island of Oahu, Hawaii.
Thanks to J.J. Short Associates Inc., my Smith-Corona Silent-Super manufactured in 1954 is ready to keep making good impressions on readers for another 65 years.

This photo of a typewritten page contains the following text. Friday, June 14, 2019. Chicago, USA. Smith-Corona Silent-Super, 1954, Pica. Free enterprise in action. Even when a vintage typewriter Is In near—perfect condition there’s always  one item that's likely to be in bad shape: the rubber platen. Old platen coatings become hard and contribute to noisy typing and poor letter impressions. Typing with a second sheet or even a plastic piece behind your main paper can be partial and  temporary solutions. But a permanent fix requires replacing the rubber. Some folks have managed to do the job themselves using rubber hose  cut to fit and then heat-shrunk. But that’s way beyond my technical capabilities, so I was dee-lited to learn that J. J. Short Associates Inc., a family—owned company Just outside Rochester, N.Y., has risen to the occasion and is now replacing rubber for typewriter platens, feed rollers, and other components. The company completed my platen’s recoating  quickly and at a reasonable price. This is a great example of free enterprise!

Need your platen stripped and re-rubberized?
J.J. Short Associates Inc. is ready to do the job.

 

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